126results about "Signal boxes station blocking" patented technology

A train tracking system includes a train tracking module, a plurality of input sources providing train related information, and one or more interface(s) associated with the train tracking module, wherein the train tracking module is configured via computer executable instructions and through operation of a processor to receive the train related information from the plurality of input sources via the one or more interface(s), determine a position of a train within a train track map, the position of the train corresponding to a track location of the train in a track network, and wherein the train tracking module further comprises a learning algorithm, the train tracking module being configured to, utilizing the learning algorithm, determine an unexpected occupancy of the track location.

A shuttle operation control method for urban rail transit, a device, and a medium. In the method, a shuttle area is provided on an ATS workstation, and after a trackside system protects the shuttle area, an authorized train operates by turning back at any point in an active state shuttle area, and safety protection is performed for train operation and tracking in the shuttle area. Compared with the existing technology, by means of authorizing a train to turn back at any point in a specific area and calculating a safe movement authorization for the train to return to the previous platform, the present invention has advantages such as improving the means by which urban rail transit can respond to faults and reducing fault recovery time.

A method for assigning train blocks at a railroad merchandise yard includes determining, using a first optimization model and historical train block volume data, a first list of train block assignments for a plurality of train blocks and a plurality of classification tracks of a classification bowl. The method further includes displaying the first list of train block assignments generated by the first optimization model if the volume of the train blocks is not greater than the total available track length of the classification tracks. The method further includes determining and displaying, using a second optimization model and the historical train block volume data, a second list of train block assignments for the plurality of train blocks and the plurality of classification tracks of the classification bowl if the volume of the plurality of train blocks is greater than the total available track length of the plurality of classification tracks.

The present invention is based on the object of specifying a method for blocking and / or unblocking track sections in which human errors in the context of incorrect manipulations can be reliably excluded.This object is achieved according to the invention by a method for blocking and / or unblocking a track section in rail-bound traffic, which method comprises the following method steps: a) by means of an application executed on a mobile device, a blocking of a track and / or a switch is requested in a control system used to control rail-bound traffic; b) with this request, a secret key is generated, which is exchanged between the mobile device and the control system; c) every transaction that now takes place between a security chief and a train dispatcher operating the control system is always secured in the background by the mobile device and the control technology using cryptological methods based on the secret key, and is mutually controlled with regard to the desired blocking and / or unblocking.This ensures that only persons / authorities with the secret key can perform locking and / or unlocking actions that affect only the track section and / or switch identified by this key. This reliably prevents inadvertent access to the locked elements by third parties.

A method for switching railcars at a railroad yard includes accessing a list of selected railcars for an outgoing train. The method further includes generating a plurality of train consists that each comply with a set of train rules. The method further includes displaying indications of the generated train consists and their associated number of railyard switch moves on an electronic display. The method further includes receiving a user selection of a desired train consist from the plurality of displayed train consists. The method further includes generating a plurality of switch lists according to the desired train consist and a current inventory of railcars in the railyard. The switch lists include instructions about how to form the desired train consist in the railyard. The method further includes displaying the plurality of switch lists on the electronic display.

The invention discloses a train control system for supporting in-station moving block based on CTCS (China Train Control System), which is characterized in that a radio block center judges the type of a close train of an annunciator according to the train operation position, the train state and the state of occupied detection equipment sent by a train control interlocking integrated subsystem, and on the basis, the train access state is combined; according to the train control interlocking integrated subsystem, train running permission calculation supporting in-station moving block tracking and train safety protection under abnormal conditions are achieved, and the train control interlocking integrated subsystem achieves route handling under different inspection conditions according to train types sent by the wireless block center; the problems that in a traditional in-station fixed block mode, the track resource utilization rate is low, the train operation interval is long, and the coordination efficiency of a complex station yard is insufficient are solved, the blank of a CTCS train control system supporting in-station moving block is filled, and meanwhile technical reserve is made for wider application of the train control system.

A rail vehicle system is described which comprises: i) a track section which has a monitoring device, in particular an axle counter, which is configured to monitor the state of the track section; ii) a rail vehicle which passes the track section forwards and / or backwards; and iii) a control device which is coupled to the rail vehicle and which is configured to perform ghost train detection using the rail vehicle and the state of the monitoring device; characterized in that iv) the control device is further configured to determine whether a short vehicle whose position is not recorded in the rail vehicle system meets an activation criterion, and, if the activation criterion is met, to perform ghost train detection in a high-speed mode at increased speed.

A system and method for virtual block operational status control with long block time delay is presented. The present disclosure can advantageously increase the capacity and safety of the existing railroad track infrastructure used by the railroads by determining whether a virtual block is healthy or unhealthy. The long block mode can provide a coarse granularity on the presence of a train. In virtual block mode, the system can implement a finer granularity so the virtual aspects of the sub blocks can be realized. The present disclosure provides a long block mode that can provide the system an opportunity to analyze the potential tradeoffs between granularity and reliability by determining which mode (virtual block or long block) is best utilized in a given situation. The system can operate by default in long block mode and ignore the virtual block capabilities until absolutely needed.

A system and method for virtual block operational status control with long block time delay is presented. The present disclosure can advantageously increase the capacity and safety of the existing railroad track infrastructure used by the railroads by determining whether a virtual block is healthy or unhealthy. The long block mode can provide a coarse granularity on the presence of a train. In virtual block mode, the system can implement a finer granularity so the virtual aspects of the sub blocks can be realized. The present disclosure provides a long block mode that can provide the system an opportunity to analyze the potential tradeoffs between granularity and reliability by determining which mode (virtual block or long block) is best utilized in a given situation. The system can operate by default in long block mode and ignore the virtual block capabilities until absolutely needed.

The invention relates to an in-field shunting operation protection method and equipment and a medium, and the method comprises the following steps: S01, a train stops in front of a shunting signal machine, a driver selects a shunting driving mode and starts the shunting signal machine at an opening speed, and after the shunting signal machine passes a shunting beacon, the state of the front shunting signal machine is obtained; step S02, if the state of the shunting signal machine is an allowed state, entering a shunting driving mode, monitoring in real time to run at a speed lower than that of the shunting driving mode, and authorizing the train to continue running; and S03, if the state of the shunting signal machine is the limiting state, the train is emergently braked and stopped, and the shunting driving mode is quitted. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that the field shunting operation efficiency and the transportation safety are improved, and the equipment installation and construction cost is reduced.

The application discloses a method for judging whether a computer interlocking device matches a highest allowable speed of a train or not, and whether the computer interlocking device can satisfy normal unlocking of a route when the train runs at the highest allowable speed; and the condition for the normal unlocking of the route is that the computer interlocking device detects an occupancy state of a current track section first, then detects an occupancy state of a next track section, and finally detects a clearance state of the current track section. The method solves the problem that the performance setting of the computer interlocking device, the train length matched with the computer interlocking device and the length of a track section in a station should satisfy the requirements when the train runs at the highest allowable speed, and provides technical support for new product research and development and project implementation of the computer interlocking device.

A method is described for operating a rail vehicle system (100), the method comprising: i) passing a route by means of a rail vehicle (110), ii) sending a position message (130) of the rail vehicle (110) to a control device, iii) dimensioning a shadow train timer (T_S) based on a distance to the boundary of the current clear detection section (TVD1), and a dynamic specific time interval, and iv) Evaluating whether a shadow train (120) is following the rail vehicle (110) based on the shadow train timer (T_S).

The application discloses an interlocking jump locking path selection and protection method and system, a storage medium and equipment, belongs to the technical field of unmanned driving, and comprises the following steps: receiving a jump locking request sent by a region controller; acquiring data of all jump locking regions, selecting a jump locking region according to a predetermined condition, and locking the selected jump locking region; setting a flag of the selected jump locking region and a flag of a protection turnout corresponding to the selected jump locking region as having locking, and generating locking information; and feeding back the locking information to the region controller. According to the application, the data of all jump locking regions is configured, the paths in the corresponding jump locking regions are checked according to the jump locking region code sent by the region controller to determine whether the paths meet the predetermined condition, the lockable paths can be selected for locking, and the locking region can be safely protected.

The invention relates, inter alia, to a method for ghost train detection within the context of operating a railway track system (10). According to the invention, in the method: - the occupancy status of a track section (20) is monitored using a track-section monitoring device (30) having a signal processing time (Tv), and this track section is reported as free or occupied; - prior to a rail vehicle (50) entering the track section (20) which has been reported as free or after a rail vehicle (50) has exited the track section (20), the region (B) between the rail vehicle (50) and an optically detectable marking (70, 71, 72) which has been installed in the track section (20) or at an end (21, 22) of the track section (20) is monitored by means of at least one camera (81, 82); and - the track section (20) and the region (B) between the marking (70, 71, 72) and the rail vehicle (50) are reported as unoccupied by a ghost train when both, for a specified minimum observation time period which is at least as long as the signal processing time (Tv) of the track-section monitoring device (30), camera signals (KS) from the camera (81, 82) indicate that the region (B) between the rail vehicle (50) and the marking (70, 71, 72) is unoccupied and, at least at the end of the minimum observation time period, the track-section monitoring device (30) reports the track section (20) as free.

The application provides a method and system for checking shunting route data, the method comprising: reading a target configuration file, the target configuration file being a configuration file of shunting route data; and performing correctness checking on the shunting route data in the target configuration file. The system executes the method. The application reads a target configuration file, identifies the shunting route data in the target configuration file, and then performs relevant correctness checking on the identified shunting route data, thereby replacing the traditional manual checking of shunting route data, which is inefficient and difficult to effectively check all data errors, and the checking process is prone to manual errors.

A method for assigning train blocks at a railroad merchandise yard includes determining, using a first optimization model and historical train block volume data, a first list of train block assignments for a plurality of train blocks and a plurality of classification tracks of a classification bowl. The method further includes displaying the first list of train block assignments generated by the first optimization model if the volume of the train blocks is not greater than the total available track length of the classification tracks. The method further includes determining and displaying, using a second optimization model and the historical train block volume data, a second list of train block assignments for the plurality of train blocks and the plurality of classification tracks of the classification bowl if the volume of the plurality of train blocks is greater than the total available track length of the plurality of classification tracks.

The invention discloses a gap detection method and system, and the method comprises the steps: an interlocking system obtains the occupation state information of a platform rail, and transmits the information to a platform door control system, and the platform door control system obtains the opening and closing state information of a platform door, and the platform door control system sends the platform rail occupation state information and the platform door opening and closing state information to gap detection equipment. And the gap detection equipment executes gap detection operation according to the platform rail occupation state information and the platform door opening and closing state information, and sends a gap detection result to a platform door control system. And the platform door control system calculates the gap detection result, obtains platform door locking state information and sends the information to the interlocking system. According to the gap detection method and the gap detection system, the operation time required for controlling the gap detection system to start / stop can be saved, and the safety of the control method of the gap detection system is improved.

The application relates to a path storage-based protection section unlocking area calculation method, equipment and medium, which comprises the following steps: inputting line data and configuration data, wherein the configuration data is the maximum protection section unlocking area length; calculating all initial protection section unlocking areas according to the line data and the configuration data, and storing corresponding path track sections; and removing the same-direction head-tail overlapping areas and the converging turnout conflict areas existing in the initial protection section unlocking areas in sequence to obtain final protection section unlocking areas. Compared with the prior art, the application has the advantages that the stored path track sections are processed in sequence after storage, automatic and rapid calculation of the protection section unlocking areas is realized, and the calculation efficiency of the protection section unlocking areas is improved.

The invention relates to an electronic system (20) for supervising a fleet (12) of vehicles (14) capable of moving on a network (16) of one or more railway tracks (18), each vehicle (14) including a positioning device configured to provide a position of the vehicle (14) and a radio transceiver configured to communicate via a radio link (22) with the supervision system (20). The electronic supervision system (20) comprises: - an acquisition module (30) configured to acquire position information of each vehicle (14) of the fleet (12) moving on the network (16) of one or more railway tracks (18); and - a management module (32) configured to manage a spacing between vehicles (14) moving on a relevant railway track (18), on the basis of the position information acquired from the vehicles (14) moving on the railway track (18).

The invention relates to a route associated train calculation method and device based on a resource management unit and a medium. The method specifically comprises the steps that S1, a train automatic monitoring system ATS issues a route creation command; s2, the RMU creates a route according to the resource state; s3, the RMU searches a first vehicle on the upstream of the route, and if the first vehicle is a communication train, the train is associated to the route; s4, judging whether the train is driven into the route or not according to the position of the train associated with the route, maintaining the train to be continuously associated with the route if the train is not driven into the route, and releasing the train associated with the route if the train is driven into the route; and S5, after the route is disconnected from the associated train, the route starts to be unlocked. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that the route can be quickly unlocked according to the position information of the associated train, the departure interval can be shortened, and the operation efficiency is greatly improved.

The invention provides a subway signal system outbound and outbound broadcasting method. The method comprises the following steps: deploying video equipment at a subway platform outbound end and a garage outbound end; after the train is parked accurately, the vehicle-mounted controller sends a parking accurate signal to the video equipment of the corresponding platform / garage; preprocessing the collected video image, extracting a feature angular point, calculating an optical flow vector of the feature angular point, and identifying a train area in the image; judging whether the train is converted into motion from static and lasts for preset time or not, and if yes, sending a motion state signal; continuously sending the motion state signal every preset time until the broadcast ending signal is received; and after the motion state signal is received, the signal is verified, and a broadcast instruction is sent to the vehicle-mounted broadcast system if verification is passed. The invention aims to detect the motion state of a train by using video equipment of a platform or a garage, and broadcast station leaving or garage leaving broadcast according to the motion state of the train.

The invention discloses a method and a system for processing poor shunting in CTC automatic pre-arrangement access, and relates to the technical field of railway transportation control, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a residual voltage abnormal section mark which is used for marking a track section corresponding to poor shunting; before a pre-arrangement route instruction is generated, whether a residual voltage abnormal mark exists in a track section related to a route or not is judged; if yes, determining that the route relates to a poor shunt section, suspending information of the poor shunt section on a plan execution interface of a dispatcher terminal, and triggering a manual intervention mechanism; after manual intervention is completed, the CTC system executes the pre-arrangement route instruction; the processing method ensures safe and reliable execution of the CTC automatic pre-arrangement route function.

An interface adapter for controlling a track-side object of a railway installation includes an analog input from an external source and an analog output to drive an electromechanical relay circuit. A bidirectional digital communication interface communicates digital data including first digital data transmitted and second digital data received. An analog-to-digital converter coupled to the analog input is configured to generate a first digital signal representing the electrical input. A digital-to-analog converter coupled to the analog output is configured to generate the electrical output in response to a second digital signal. A power supply supplies electrical power to the digital-to-analog converter. A programmable logic control circuit includes a control program configured to produce the first digital data from the first digital signal, transmit the first digital data using the digital communication interface, process the second digital data, and produce the second digital signal in response to the second digital data.

The application discloses a signal machine control system and method. The signal machine comprises an entrance signal machine and a pre-warning signal machine, and the system comprises a first light-on circuit comprising a first power supply end and a first signal lamp end, the first power supply end being connected with a first power supply, and the first signal lamp end being connected with the pre-warning signal machine; and a second light-on circuit comprising a second power supply end and a second signal lamp end, the second power supply end being connected with the first power supply, and the second signal lamp end being connected with the entrance signal machine. The application solves the technical problem of low traffic safety caused by the fuse wire breakage of the light-on system of the signal machine in the related art.

The invention provides a universal route automatic selection and arrangement method and device, electronic equipment and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of train automatic control. The method comprises the steps that a target information set is generated based on a station yard graph and an interlocking table; determining the initial priority of the path based on the position relationship between the initial position and the operation destination of the train, whether the initial position of the train and the final position of the entrance route have turn-back attributes or not, and the total number of routes in the current concentration area; determining the priority of the route based on whether the route is valid or not, whether the fixed and reverse position states of each turnout in the route are the same as the default bending position of the turnout and whether the starting position and the final position of the route passing through the turnout have turn-back attributes or not; determining the final priority of each path based on the initial priority of the path and the priority of each route; and determining a target path based on the final priority of each path. According to the invention, the problem of automatic route selection and arrangement in a special scene can be solved, and universal route automatic selection and arrangement in the whole line are realized.

Procedures for controlling a plant and plant for carrying out such a procedure, wherein the system has movable mobile components along a track, in particular a rail, where the actual position of the respective handset is adjusted to the actual position of the predecessor if the predecessor is located between the actual position of the respective handset and the target position of the respective handset, and otherwise the actual position of the respective handset is adjusted to the target position of the respective handset.

The invention relates to the technical field of coal mine underground safety control, and discloses a mining track interval locking device which comprises a track interval locking device main control box. The track interval locking device master control box is connected with the proximity switch, the display controller, the signal display box and the voice sound-light alarm annunciator through cables. A physical layer sensing and diagnosis subsystem, a self-adaptive logic control subsystem, a cross validation diagnosis unit and a prognosis analysis unit are integrated in the main control box. The physical health of the proximity switch is evaluated by monitoring the electrical energy fingerprint of the proximity switch in real time, and meanwhile, the passing time sequence is analyzed to adaptively update the overtime logic threshold value, so that misjudgment is reduced; and cross validation is carried out by fusing information of physical and logic levels, so that equipment faults and operation abnormalities can be accurately distinguished, early warning can be carried out on a working condition drift trend, and the diagnosis accuracy, the operation reliability and the intelligent level of the locking device are improved.